Shepard Fairey hits Chicago. These have been up for a few weeks, but I took these pictures on May 5. This is the underpass of Lake Shore Drive on Grand. This piece is actually legit, which means he’s sold out or something.

At first, I confused Sky Ferriera with Skye Sweetnam, who was best known for the song “Billy S” featured on the soundtrack for How to Deal. This is pretty insulting to Sky without an E, considering “Billy S” is really code for “Shakespeare”, and the chorus is:

“I don’t need to read Billy Shakespeare
Meet Juliet or Malvolio
Feel for once what it’s like to rebel now
I wanna break out lets go”

When I was working on my BA, I came across Burt Reynolds’ book Hot Line: The Letters I Get… and write!, published in 1972, during the prime of his fame. When I say came across I really mean I read about the book, and knew that trying to find the library that would Interlibrary Loan it to me would be difficult, so I merely cited it as a Fun Fact in my head and moved on. Thanks to the magic internet though, someone has kindly uploaded some of the best letters from Burt’s brilliant tome, and allowed me to get a glimpse as to what I’ve been missing.

Like this one:

I’m fairly certain this is from an underage female, making Burt’s response less than kosher, though perhaps during the free-wheelin’ ’70s, things would have been seen differently between them and a love affair could have bloomed.

Some people are very very very good whistlers. It took other people a long time to just fake it.

The weather has not been good to Chicago this week; in fact, it’s been the definition of a fickle mistress. That’s not related to this video, it’s just to say that things have been better and I look forward to them being so again.

I haven’t made it through all of these interviews with Matthew Weiner, but here’s more information about Mad Men than you always wanted to know.

I appreciated the power of Robert Ebert’s words before, but somehow, they’ve become more moving now that he can’t speak.